Ask Lemmy

Not bots. Who would develop propaganda bots to for lemmy just to spite 1 particular person.

Interesting how many people here get hung up on downvotes and advise to either block the techies, the tankies, or both. And quite hilarious how this adivice gets so quickly derailed into 'political discussions' (rather namecalling and blocking each other). I wasn't even talking about downvotes, I don't care much about them, and I try to not get involved in political stuff where people consider it a useful way to discuss about any issue, because that's just kindergarden stuff and I'd expect a bot to be able to be a little more convincing than just downvoting my post or comment. Yet another reason to spend more time offline - I'mma switch all of you off! And you! And you!!

I sometimes go on lemvotes to see who's upvoting garbage. 80% of votes are done by account with no or very little comments. I also noticed a lot of the pro zionist accounts went offline relatively all at the same time. Hard to trust anything on lemmy.

been that way since I joined.

it's crazy how I can call someone out in a low traffic community and end up with 30 downvotes in five minutes.

it's also funny how when you call different people out on similar topics you get the same word-for-word response back from weeks or months ago.

I'm not saying it's bots, but......

The only one I am not entirely sure about is qrstuv (or something like that) and their community Funhole. I just assume they are the same kind of weird, eccentric internet person I've known about since getting online but there are some things that make me wonder if they are actually a bot sometimes.

Their usernsme is just kinda random. there is another user with another 5 letter username that's just random letters that responds to all their posts with the same comment. Their art is pretty unique and strange, but that could also be AI generated.

I'm pretty sure they are an actual weirdo, but simultaneously if someone discovered they weren't I wouldn't be surprised. I do like their art, though. It's pretty rad.

No offense to qrstuv if you are flesh and blood instead of 1s and 0s. :P

I don't block users, I have a "firewall" on my brain (metaphorically speaking). I over analyze every comment, its kinda like a "spot the bot" mini-game.

I estimate there are like 1/3 bots especially on very heated political memes on the front page. I'm automatically just blocking out the "voting is useless, don't vote" sentinment, very unproductive. Also idk wtf is with the "don't protest, revolt now, kill [insert name of politician] right now", like why the f would you say that on the open internet where there are government automatic data scrapers archiving all this for evidence? (Remember you can get extradited for making threats) Like jokes sure thing, but don't be that explicit lol. Fed-posting is so common lol.

The less political, the less "bot-like" it feels.

I get what you mean, that's why I always overthink every comment and scan for like everyone's profile.

Hey... Wait a minute...

GET DOWN, JOHN CONNOR. THE OP IS A TERMINATOR /j